How should the US balance privacy and national security?

Join a conversation featuring White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel on this crucial debate over how this will affect Americans and US enterprises in Washington, D.C. with Passcode and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

FBI Director James Comey has gone so far as to criticize companies that build consumer devices designed without back doors for law enforcement, and one Justice Department official has labeled devices with strong encryption a “zone of lawlessness.”

But in a Passcode Influencers Poll released Wednesday, more than three quarters of cybersecurity and privacy experts disagreed with these leading government officials, arguing that consumer devices would not hinder law enforcement and intelligence agencies so much that it would harm national security.

While the Crypto Wars of the 1990's may be over, there are clearly more battles ahead. Join​ Passcode, the Monitor's new focus on digital security and privacy, and​ ​the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation for a panel to discuss how these proposed policies will affect consumers’ privacy and security, the implications for the U.S. tech sector, and alternative policy options that might strike a better balance the needs of law enforcement and robust security practices.

​The event will run from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 12. You can register for the event here or watch live above.